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Questions about The Beatles: Get Back

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What is The Beatles: Get Back documentary series by Peter Jackson about?

The Beatles: Get Back documentary series covers twenty-one days in the studio during January 1969 when the band rehearsed for an album and concert. Episodes span three consecutive daily releases starting the 25th of November 2021, each running between two and three hours.

When was The Beatles: Get Back documentary series released on Disney+?

Organizers decided to release it instead as a three-part series on Disney+ beginning Thanksgiving weekend on the 17th of June 2021. Home media distribution followed later with Blu-ray and DVD releases arriving the 12th of July 2022.

How did Peter Jackson restore audio for The Beatles: Get Back documentary series?

WingNut Films employed restoration techniques developed for their previous work on They Shall Not Grow Old to separate recordings onto distinct tracks. Their neural network system carried the name MAL, standing for machine-assisted learning, which honored the Beatles former road manager Mal Evans while serving as a pun to HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey.

What awards did The Beatles: Get Back documentary series win in 2022 and 2023?

The American Cinema Editors Awards honored Jabez Olssen with Best Edited Documentary Non-Theatrical on the 5th of March 2022. Primetime Emmy Awards presented multiple honors including Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series and Outstanding Directing for a Documentary Program to Peter Jackson on the 3rd of September 2022. Critics Choice Documentary Awards named the project Best Limited Documentary Series and Best Archival Documentary on the 13th of November 2022.

Why was The Beatles: Get Back documentary series initially delayed from theatrical release?

The film was initially set to be theatrically released by Walt Disney Pictures on the 4th of September 2020 but the pandemic pushed the date back to the 27th of August 2021. Over its first four days of release viewers streamed the content for a total of five hundred three million minutes.